Neat to Eat: Medovnicky

To Eat or Not To Eat?

At all the Christmas markets

along the Danube I kept seeing

these beautifully decorated cookies.

They are honey cakes

called Medovnicky and

people use them for decoration

but also to eat.  They are given

as favors at weddings as well.

I couldn't eat them because

I would feel like I was

eating a work of art ~ I

wouldn't want to destroy it.

When I was at the International

Quilt Festival in Houston I met

this lovely person from Australia.

I thought her embroidery looked

so much like medovnicky.

And back in my hotel

room I was working on

this.  I thought it was so

funny that a girl in Australia

and a girl in the USA could

both be working on something

so similar and they both looked

like something from Eastern Europe.

Small World...